It’s ZION Youth Night!! Can’t wait to see you there at 7pm!! 😀🙌🎉 The Christmas lights are up! ✨❄️🎄Tonight is the last night of our Ephesians study, and we will be hearing from Anthony one more time. We will be saying farewell as he goes back to TCMI to finish up his studies. What an incredible blessing he has been to us over the past few months. 🙌💛 We love you and will miss having you around! Praying God’s best over your life and ministry, Anthony! We are so grateful to have been a part of your journey! ☺️🙏 #zionyouth#ephesians6#armorofgod

🚨 Lengthy Post 😅Obedience...man this is a tough one for me. I’ve been hearing this over and over again and I’m beginning to think God is really trying to get a point across. HA! Have you ever felt led, called, maybe been given a vision, a revelation, a tug, been prompted by the Holy Spirit to do something (or maybe not to do something) but instead you do the complete opposite?!? Well that’s me y’all and the Lord is CALLING ME OUT. I’ve been paralyzed. Paralyzed by fear! I’ve been given the vision, been told to go, but here I sit in my unworthiness, in my inadequacies asking “who am I to do this?”. I don’t feel enough, I don’t feel worthy, I don’t feel adequate...this can’t be my assignment God...surely you mean for someone else to do this, someone more qualified, someone better then me, someone with more knowledge, more wisdom, someone more righteous then me.... But what I’m realizing, what He’s teaching me, is that our disobedience not only affects us but so many other souls. What if you knew that your faithful obedience would change lives...maybe even hundreds and thousands? That lives were at stake if you didn’t step out in faith and just move, just GO, just do!!! Man am I being called out today. I think it’s time I listen and OBEY, and with fear still ever present, step out in FAITH with humble obedience and just GO and DO.

I encourage you too, to GO! If he’s put something on your heart, know it’s a purpose only YOU can fulfill in His story. Let’s play OUR part in HIS👆🏻story and live out our God given purpose...other lives depend on it!!!

The enemy is wildly pursuing our seperation from the Father. He creeps between our prayers, our hope and our joy to bring darkness and discord. Whether we're on our way to a Christmas program or a family gathering, or in the middle of a battle as we cling to hope, we can be sure the enemy is looking for a way to steal, kill and destroy. //When I was on bedrest with our Samuel, we filled our hearts and minds with all things from above. But, that did not keep the enemy from continuing his ugly pursuit. // //Please go read my newest blog post about the woman who came in to my hospital room and instantly spit out the darkness we discerned as the enemy's attempt to suffocate our hope. //Go to the www.thewellplace.org and read:"THE SAMUEL SERIES 8: HIS GREAT NAME" Blue link in bio Double tap if you've experienced this in this Holy season and tag someone below who needs to read this!

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Suit up, there's a war going on!! For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...Stop being so caught up in the fleshly and worldy issues that take you away from God. Our focus should be on Christ. Wars are coming. The bible says it. Persecution is coming. The bible says it. If you're a citizen of heaven then it doesn't matter who the presidents and kings of this world are. Jesus is Lord!! He is King of kings and Lord of lords. He is Master. The Undefeatable and the Everlasting. He is the Amen and the Life. Turn your eyes to Him and stop looking at the world and stop looking LIKE the world. A church that becomes Holy cannot be tolerated by the world!! #Holy#Jesus#JesusChrist#armorofGod#war#JesusisLord#warfare

Paul can pray. He prays these bold, clear, strategic prayers over his people and my gosh I can learn a lot from this.

In this Ephesians passage, Paul prays for unity, understanding, peace from knowing we are loved. He specifies "together with all the Lord's people" - can you imagine what a united band of believers can do when we understand together that each one of us in our uniquely created differences are loved beyond comprehension?! There is a condition to this prayer - being rooted and established in love. If we are already rooted and established, why would we need the power to grasp how loved we are? I don't know about you, but when I am leaned in, following Jesus, and saying yes to all the things He has yet to reveal to me, the enemy hits hard. I have to admit the enemy of my soul has knocked me down a bit - I feel wounded and beat up. But because I am rooted and established in love through my faith, I can pray this attack away. Knowing I am loved in the midst of frustration and hurt and anger, resting in that love from Jesus, I can battle the attacks. I feel one coming on as I write this out, so I must be on to something 😉 Nothing formed against me will stand. Leaning into the love of my Savior. Leaning into His wild, crazy peace and care and light. I will still choose surrender, I will still choose "Yes", even if it's hard and scary and seems against all odds.

Learning to walk by faith requires time. As you have seen, Abraham listened to God and obeyed Him. Then over the years he learned to master additional skills (Hebrews 11:8)🌹 🌹Dependence. The Elect's life is one of total reliance upon God. From the very start, Abraham recognized that his own knowledge was limited and the right way was not obvious. But he understood whom he could trust to meet his needs: God knew the plan perfectly and had all the necessary resources to accomplish His will through Abraham (Jeremiah 29:11)🌹 🌹Waiting on God. This may seem to be one of the hardest disciplines to master. Scripture shows that even Abraham, the great man of faith, had trouble in this area. While your human nature wants action, the Lord often asks His sheep to hold back (2 Chronicles 20:17)🌹 God wants you to let Him act first. Your part is to meditate on the Word everyday, listen for God’s voice, and wait until God instructs you to act. The Lord, meanwhile, promises to bless those who wait (Isaiah 64:4)🌹 🌹Confession. Abraham was not flawless. When famine threatened, he headed toward Egypt, not toward God. Then he lied, which made trouble for others. Later, Sarah found it too hard to wait for the promised child, so she and Abraham took matters into their own hands (Genesis 16:1-3)🌹 You also will stumble. But when you return to the Lord in repentance and acknowledge your failure, you will receive forgiveness and can resume walking by faith (1 John 1:9)🌹 God knows you are not flawless. God will patiently and repeatedly teach you faith-walking lessons until you learn to trust Him. What GOD started He will complete (Philippians 1:6)🌹 🌹Please read today's PROVERBS: Chapter 13🌹

This! We have traditions, want, need, wear, read. This list by my eight year old puts everything into perspective this holiday season. This is the greatest gift ever! Want - ForgivenessNeed - JesusRead - BibleWear - Armor of God.The Greatest In The Kingdom“About that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?” Jesus called a little child to him and put the child among them. Then he said, “I tell you the truth, unless you turn from your sins and become like little children, you will never get into the Kingdom of Heaven. So anyone who becomes as humble as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. “And anyone who welcomes a little child like this on my behalf is welcoming me. But if you cause one of these little ones who trusts in me to fall into sin, it would be better for you to have a large millstone tied around your neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea. “What sorrow awaits the world, because it tempts people to sin. Temptations are inevitable, but what sorrow awaits the person who does the tempting. So if your hand or foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It’s better to enter eternal life with only one hand or one foot than to be thrown into eternal fire with both of your hands and feet. And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It’s better to enter eternal life with only one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell. “Beware that you don’t look down on any of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels are always in the presence of my heavenly Father.”‭‭Matthew‬ ‭18:1-10‬ ‭NLT‬‬#wantneedwearread#thegreatestinthekingdom#forgiveness#jesus#bible#armorofgod